Posted on 09/01/2018 10:01:15 AM PDT by Trump20162020
In Washington, high-profile funerals often fall to vice presidents.
“You die, I’ll fly” was how George H.W. Bush summed up the frequent funeral part of his portfolio when he was Ronald Reagan’s No. 2 in the 1980s. (Bush attributed the quip to Secretary of State James A. Baker.)
But sometimes, the passing of an august figure requires words from the highest political voice in the country, a sitting or former president.
President Trump did not attend Saturday’s memorial service for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) at Washington National Cathedral. Nor has Trump spoken at a funeral since moving into the White House, according to Gerhard Peters, a political-science professor and a keeper of the American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara, a comprehensive database of presidential speeches, briefings, fireside chats, toasts and other public utterances dating to the Hoover administration.
But McCain was eulogized by two former occupants of the Oval Office: Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
The pair remembered McCain as a man of ideals and convictions — a man “who had been to hell and back” and still kept his optimism.
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Hey all you folks at the funeral: We’re watching football.....
The media has had great success at providing Trump bashing rhetoric through the McCain death vehicle the entire week.
Poppy Bush and Jimmy Carter should watch their backs.
Forgot the barf alert.
Shudda posted this in chat.
This is truly sick and desperate.
More Trump-bashing.
No wonder the WashComposf was so gleeful.
Wellstoning a national funeral. Nothing Christian about Trump’s adversaries.
Histrionic, I think they meant histrionic.
I’ll pass on the NFL however let me know when the Darlington race comes on. Guarantee you will see no one taking a knee there.
Great Post!
McCain has been to hell and back?
He just returned to hell and there is no coming back this time!
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